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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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After many years while conducting an x-ray they discobered mysterious rays which infact was radioactive rays
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helped seperarte Panama from Columbia
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Theodor Roosevelt second inaugaration
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William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president.
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At the age of 14, F. Scott Fitzgerald appears in print for the first time, with "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage" in the student publication St. Paul Academy Now and Then.
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Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th president
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Fitzgerald enters Princeton University with the Class of 1917.
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Austia declares war on Serbia
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The first the first long distance telephone call between New York and San Fancisco is demonstrated.
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On academic probation and close to flunking out of Princeton, Fitzgerald takes a commission as an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and leaves school to report for duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He never graduates from Princeton
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Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes; by 1920, nearly 20 million are dead.
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World War 1 ends
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda marry in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
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March 26, 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel This Side of Paradise is published.
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The Fitzgeralds' first and only child is born, a daughter named Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota. Zelda said upon her birth that she hopes her daugter will be a "beautiful little fool". which F. Scott later on use in the Great Gatsby as Daisy's dialouge.
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The family decides to move to Europe. They spend close to 7 years in Paris, France.
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The U.S. stock market crashes, triggering the Great Depression.
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The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem
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Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate
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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
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"Trouble," Fitzgerald's last story for The Saturday Evening Post, is published
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Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood after signing a six-month contract from Metro Goldwyn Mayer, hoping that he'll work his way out of debt with screenplays.
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The invasion of Poland sets off WW II
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Albert Einstien wrote president roosevelt about an idea of creating an atomic bomb
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F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at Sheilah Graham's Hollywood, California apartment. He is buried in Rockville, Maryland, where his father was born.
